In the 2010 fiscal year, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provided about $2.3 billion in food benefits to a monthly average of over 1.6 million people in Pennsylvania.

Based on the most comprehensive current estimate, trafficking diverted an estimated $330 million annually from SNAP benefits which equals about 1 cent of each SNAP dollar between 2006 and 2008. That is about 8.2 percent of all stores trafficked.

Trafficking is defined by the Department of Agricultre as selling SNAP benefits to food retailers for cash.